Customized air conditioner controlling system and method thereof

Abstract

A system and method for controlling an air conditioner to provide cooling or heating customized to each occupant of a vehicle by measuring body temperatures of each occupant. The system includes a body temperature measuring unit configured to measure a body temperature of each occupant, a personalized service determining unit configured to determine a personalized service including whether to drive a cooling device or a heating device for each occupant based on the body temperature of each occupant, and an air conditioner controlling unit configured to control the air conditioner discriminatively for each occupant based on a personalized service.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims priority to and the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2013-0110969 filed in the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Sep. 16, 2013, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to a system and a method of controlling an air conditioner. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and a method of controlling an air conditioner, which are customized to a vehicle occupant including a driver.BACKGROUND ART[0003]In general, an air conditioning system for a vehicle is an apparatus that cools / heats an interior of the vehicle or purifies interior air, and maintains appropriate humidity. The air conditioning system maintains the interior in a fresh state and prevents a glass window from clouding or being frosted so as to secure a driver's visibility, thereby achieving safe driving.[0004]However, in the air conditioning syste...

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Benefits of technology

[0027]According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the following effects can be obtained through a configuration for achieving the object.

[0029]Second, an additional operating switch need not be actuated by controlling an air conditioner through voice dialogue and the convenience of the occupant can be increased.

[0030]Third, the air conditioner is controlled based on a skin temperature of each occupant to increase sensitive satisfaction depending on a sensory temperature felt by the occupant.

[0031]Fourth, an in-vehicle intelligent system is configured, which has a function an artificial intelligent air conditioning system to improve merchantability.

Problems solved by technology

However, in the air conditioning system for a vehicle in the related art, a temperature in the vehicle is integrally controlled regardless of a state of each occupant, and as a result, some occupants feel inconvenient such as cold, hot, and the like.

That is, the air conditioning system in the related art is centralized, and as a result, requirements of all occupants cannot be satisfied simultaneously.

In the air conditioning system in the related art, a driver or a person who is occupant in a front / rear seat experiences inconvenience to change setting several times according to an intention of the occupant.

However, this method cannot solve the aforementioned problem because an interior temperature is adjusted based on an outside temperature regardless of the intention of the occupant in spite of being switched from a manual operating step to an automatic control mode.

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